Angry Borrowers: Ex Post Effects of Social Shaming on Debt Repayment

The authors thank Li An, Zhuo Chen, William Cong, Ha Diep-Nguyen, Raymond Fisman, Janet Gao, Umit Gurun, Naveen Khanna, Emma Li, Bibo Liu, Qiang Ren, Stephan Siegel, Huan Tang, Wenyu Wang, Hong Zhang, Yi Zhou, Xiaodong Zhu, and seminar participants at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, Baylor University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Indiana University, Michigan State University, Mississippi State University, University of Illinois in Chicago, Peking University, Southeast University, Tsinghua University, the AFA Poster Session, the 5th International Conference on FinTech Development, the 2019 China Finance Review International Conference, the 2020 Georgetown Privacy Day conference, and the 2020 GSU-RFS FinTech Conference for helpful comments and suggestions. Zhengwei Wang thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China [72525003] for financial support. Special thanks go to Julie Steiff and Estella Yan for their editorial help. All remaining errors are the authors’ own.